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TIL lobsters are “biologically immortal”

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JYrYk TIL that in 1997 an Air Force pilot stole a fully loaded A-10 Thunderbolt II and apparently committed suicide by crashing it into a Colorado mountain. The ordinance was not with the aircraft when it was found and has never been recovered.
56K9 TIL in a Dutch auction, the price is REDUCED until a single bid is made, thus ending the sale.
7Ajb TIL: Payphones on every Toronto subway platform have a “Crisis link” button that connects them with a crisis line, in case they are contemplating suicide.
WAlL TIL Viruses sometimes got lucky enough to copy themselves into an egg that became fertilized and grew into a full-fledged adult. So that viral DNA got passed down from generation to human generation as so-called endogenous retroviruses
8e0PG TIL that not only has it been more than fifty years since a person last set foot on the moon, the entire period of crewed missions to the lunar surface only lasted three and a half years.